Deadliner vs Execute
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deadliner
This app offers a visual approach to task and deadline management, helping users increase productivity and reduce procrastination. It features countdowns, Gantt-style charts, and robust organization tools with extensive customization options.
- Visual countdowns for deadlines
- Gantt-style iterative schedules
- Task organization with tags and subtasks
- Seamless cloud sharing across devices
- Extensive customization options
- Home screen widgets for quick access
- iCloud sync for Apple devices
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Deadliner is a visual task tracker designed to increase your productivity and eliminate procrastination. Immerse yourself in a brand-new visual approach to tracking and managing deadlines, projects, events, and meetings. Set goals and visualize your progress by instantly seeing the remaining time compared to when you started a given task. Enhance your productivity further by adding subtasks to create a Gantt-style iterative schedule that seamlessly tracks across all your devices. Deadliner offers a range of practical applications for personal planning, teamwork, and education. Personalize your planning by tracking event time and progress, collaborate with team members by sharing deadlines, and create deadlines for students (or your own schedule as a student) and instantly share them. Key features include: - Visual Countdown: A novel approach to organization that provides a clear perspective. - Gantt-style Charts: Facilitate task iteration and enhance productivity and organization. - Organization with Tags, Projects, and Subtasks: Streamline your task management. Create subtasks of subtasks and complex task tress, or keep it simple. - Seamless Cloud Sharing: Instant cloud sharing across all your devices, built-in. - Over 1,200 Customization Options: Personalize your experience with icons, tags, and color schemes. - Home Screen Widgets: Access all your deadlines with a single swipe on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. - iCloud Sync: Seamless synchronization between iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. - Reminders Sync: Import reminders as deadlines and keep changes aligned when enabled. - Support for Advanced Automation: Leverage built-in Shortcuts to streamline your workflows. Deadliner is available as apps for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. Your subscription is shared across all your devices, ensuring uninterrupted access to all features. EULA: https://zetegy.com/eula/deadliner Terms of Use: https://zetegy.com/terms/deadliner
Execute
Organize your day and manage projects efficiently with interactive task cards. Utilize flexible views like lists, timelines, and Kanban boards to prioritize, time-block, and track progress. Stay focused and complete important tasks effectively.
- Interactive task cards
- Time-blocking on a timeline
- Eisenhower matrix prioritization
- Kanban board workflow
- Built-in Pomodoro timer
- Project milestones and dependencies
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Execute helps you plan your day and run your projects—fast. Turn tasks into interactive cards you can drag, time-block, and track across flexible views. Stay focused, avoid decision fatigue, and finish the right work at the right time. Work your way - List View: Create, edit, and reorder with effortless drag-and-drop. Clean, fast, and reliable. - Plan View: Time-block your day on a timeline. See system calendar events, personal reservations, and tasks in one place. - Precise Planning (Pro): Estimate durations and fit tasks like puzzle pieces to build a realistic schedule. - Matrix View: Prioritize with the Eisenhower matrix (urgent vs. important). Create custom matrices for your workflow. - Focus View: Swipe through tasks like a deck of cards and stay in flow with the built-in Pomodoro timer. - Kanban: Move work through stages with a swipe. Visual progress, zero friction. Manage projects with clarity - Milestones: See where your project stands and what’s next. - Dependencies: Understand what’s blocked and why—avoid surprises. - Step Templates: Standardize recurring processes to save time and reduce errors. Why Execute - Fast setup: Add tasks in seconds and start planning immediately. - One place for the day: Calendar, time blocks, and tasks together. - Built for focus: Views that reduce context switching and keep you moving. Start planning with confidence and finish more of what matters—download Execute today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Execute at 73% against Deadliner's 27%. Execute also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.0) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). Deadliner's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Deadliner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Execute sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Execute holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Execute has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Deadliner's written reviews are positive against 73% of Execute's.
Deadliner ships an update every 2 weeks, Execute every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deadliner | Execute |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.4 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.8% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zetegy LLC | Innovatism LLC |
Customer experience
Deadliner
Execute
In-app purchases
Deadliner
- Deadliner Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Deadliner Annually7 Days trial$9.991 Year
Execute
- Execute Pro$19.99









